Biography:Firmin Mallet

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Firmin Mallet


     
 Given name:     Firmin
 Middle name:     
 Family name:     Mallet
 Place of birth:     Shipphagan, New Brunswick
 Place of death:     Allardville or Saint-Sauveur, New Brunswick
 Year of birth:     July 18, 1899
 Year of death:     after 1974
 Profile:     Musician
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Biographical notes


FIRMIN MALLET. Little information is available on this Acadian fiddler, born in Shipphagan, northern New Brunswick, at the end of the 19th century. He was reputed to have been a small man, who entertained with his fiddle and his politics. In 1919 he married Julianne Boudreau and together they had issue. Firmin died sometime after 1974 in either Allardville or nearby Saint-Sauveur, New Brunswick, where he lived in latter life.